A screenshot of the business class seat map on American Flight 73 for December 23. The blue seats are unoccupied. Image: American Airlines | aa.com

A screenshot of the business class seat map on American Flight 73 for December 23. The blue seats are unoccupied. Image: American Airlines | aa.com

SENIOR CORRESPONDENT - LOS ANGELES, CA. With LAX serving as a second home, John enjoys being confined to an aluminum (or now carbon composite) cylinder jetting through the air miles above the terra firma. He has logged millions of miles in such conditions and enjoyed it 99% of the time. Email: john@airlinereporter.com. You can also read more about John's non-AVGeek musings on his personal blog, VNAFlyer.

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